> going to prison for things like killing a bunch of people on the BP platform and tons and tons of wildlife. I mean even for a few months? Why are they sleepi

> going to prison for things like killing a bunch of people on the BP platform and tons and tons of wildlife. I mean even for a few months? Why are they sleeping comfortable in their beds every night plotting their next dollar? There's nothing stopping the govt from prosecuting folks who made the relevant decisions. They just choose not to. No law can change that - prosecutorial discretion and all that. Occasionally individual prosecutions do happen. The CEO of worldcom, Ebbers, was sentenced to 25 years. Some of the Enron folks served time as well.